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Jan 23, 2011 · Drawing on interviews with Washington insiders, military strategists, and exiled islanders, as well as hundreds of declassified documents, David Vine exposes the secret history of Diego Garcia.
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- David Vine
- $20.99
- Princeton University Press
Island of Shame is the first major book to reveal the shocking truth of how the United States conspired with Britain to forcibly expel Diego Garcia's indigenous people--the Chagossians--and deport them to slums in Mauritius and the Seychelles, where most live in dire poverty to this day.
Jun 1, 2012 · David Vine's Island of Shame is a sobering account of the development of the highly secret U.S. military base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean and the cost the island's indigenous people, the Chagossians, paid for its construction.
- Mary Ann Heiss
- 2012
Drawing on interviews with Washington insiders, military strategists, and exiled islanders, as well as hundreds of declassified documents, David Vine exposes the secret history of Diego Garcia.
Apr 20, 2009 · Vine, assistant professor of anthropology at American University in Washington, D.C., relates the untold story of how in the 1970s, the U.S. forcibly relocated the population of Diego Garcia, a small archipelago near the Seychelles in the Indian Ocean, in order to build a military base.
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Feb 1, 2010 · Vine's study will remain for a considerable time the definitive reference on the history of one of the most important military bases in the world and the people that was dispossessed to make way for it.
Feb 4, 2020 · David Vine recounts how the British & US governments created the Diego Garcia base, making the native Chagossians homeless in the process. He details the strategic significance of this remote location & also describes recent efforts by the exiles to regain their territory.
